The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has added a new ongoing CFPB project to its work plan updated as of March 13, 2015. The OIG is auditing the CFPB’s compliance with the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, as...more

No one running an ambulance company ever planned to go to prison for doing his or her job. But that is a real possibility if the government knocks on the door, and the owner or manager is dishonest in his or her response to...more

The OIG has defended its hospital compliance review policies in response to objections raised by the American Hospital Association (AHA). Specifically, a January 15, 2015 OIG letter addresses four main areas of AHA concern...more

The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) recently defended its practices pertaining to hospital compliance reviews in a published response to a letter from the American Hospital...more

The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services(“OIG”) responded to concerns expressed by the American Hospital Association (“AHA”) regarding the OIG’s hospital compliance reviews,...more

The American Bankers Association (ABA) has sent a letter to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) urging it to expand two of its ongoing CFPB projects: an audit of the CFPB’s public consumer complaint database and a...more

On November 24, 2014, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) published a report examining the contracting practices and funding structures of health care group purchasing organizations (“GPOs”) and their potential...more

Provider Compliance Departments routinely set audit priorities based, in part, on OIG’s Work Plan, but what should a provider do if it disagrees with a position that the OIG takes? Providers should be prepared to defend their...more

The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) work plan, updated as of November 7, 2014, indicates that the OIG’s ongoing projects include audits of the CFPB’s information security program, pay and compensation program,...more

As part of its 2015 fiscal year Annual Performance Plan published on October 1, 2014, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) will review the approach of Immigration and Customs...more

On Friday October 31, 2014, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its annual “Work Plan” for fiscal year 2015. The Work Plan is a compilation of the OIG’s plans for...more

The joint Federal Reserve/CFPB Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently issued its first listing of “major management challenges” facing the CFPB. These challenges represent what the OIG believes to be “the areas that,...more

HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued an audit of HUD last week pertaining to awards of asset repositioning fees (ARF), the funds that public housing authorities (PHAs) may receive in connection with demolishing or...more

The year 2009 marked a dramatic change in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) workforce enforcement strategy. Up until 2008, ICE focused its enforcement efforts almost exclusively on illegal workers. For instance, ICE...more

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) Directorate has recently begun implementation of an L-1 site inspection program in response to an August 2013 report released by...more

The most notable items added by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to its work plan, updated as of July 7, 2014, are audits of the CFPB’s information security program, pay and compensation program, and distribution of...more

A new HUD Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit published last week levied intense criticism at HUD’s implementation of public housing asset management. Focusing on HUD’s methodology and monitoring of asset management and...more

In May, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) proposed a new rule (Rule) that would implement changes included in the ACA. The Rule would expand OIG’s authority to exclude...more

Treasury's Inspector General Releases Audit Report for the Federal Insurance Office -
On May 14, 2014, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury released its audit report of the...more

OIG Reports Jurisdiction H Contractors Made $3.3 Million in Overpayments for Outpatient Drugs –
According to a recent OIG report, the Medicare Contractors for Jurisdiction H overpaid providers approximately $3.3...more

Today’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) technologies feature many tools that help providers practice more efficiently and allow them to spend more time caring for patients. However, the federal government recently has posted...more

On December 11, 2013, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report examining provider use of certain fraud controls in certified electronic health record (EHR) technology. OIG’s survey of 864 hospitals found...more

The Bureau’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) (which it shares with the Fed) recently issued its 2013 report card on the CFPB’s information security system. While the OIG states in the audit report that the CFPB has made...more

Bravo Health Pennsylvania, Inc. (Bravo), a Medicare Advantage Plan Sponsor and subsidiary of Cigna Corporation, agreed to pay $225,000 to the Government for allegedly misrepresenting or falsifying information furnished to the...more